Posted
by
timothy
on Thursday February 14, 2002 @03:11PM
from the face-it-you're-not-exactly-finding-aliens dept.

Ant points to the new release of amor, called: amorMD2, "Amusing Misuse of Resources -- MD2 edition, which "reads Quake 2
character files and makes them dance around your desktop for your amusement. It will run on any Posix system which has KDE/Qt installed (ie, most Linux distros, BSD's, etc)."

Seeing as I'd have the most fun having these guys dance around while I'm at work, I must ask when a possible WinPort is available (I can't change my work OS, so don't bother asking why)? I'd read the site, but it got bombed in like 2 seconds of the posting.

Also, isn't Q2 a touch old now? Do people make skins and stuff for Q2 anymore?

Actually, that's a cool idea.. All the "themes" of clippy (the dog, einstien, etc) are all annoyingly stupid. Quake monsters or stripping girls would be much better!! I might even leave it turned on instead of disabling it!

Can this be easily ported to Mac OS X? I have no idea about the technical aspects of that, but I see it will run on BSDs

No. Mac OS X and FreeBSD use completely different GUI architectures. Mac OS X uses Quartz/Aqua, whereas FreeBSD uses X11/KDE. Unless you can get rootless X on top of Aqua and you can make amor md2 run in rootless X, the answer is no.

Unless you can get rootless X on top of Aqua and you can make amor md2 run in rootless X, the answer is no.

True, but you can run rootless X alongside Aqua and they coexist quite peacefully. Heck, I'm doing it right now. I don't know about porting amor md2, but since OS X is an honest-to-god BSD it shouldn't be that hard. One of OS X's big selling points is the easy porting of *nix software.

If you're interested in running X11 apps on OS X, check out the XDarwin project [xdarwin.org]. Here's some screenshots [xdarwin.org]. Very cool stuff.

Obviously, I'm not the parent poster, but I get the same thing if I try the RPM install.

HW: Duron 800 w/ 512MB, Geforce2MX (latest
drivers) Mandrake 8.1.

I installed from source and when I tried to run all I got was a dialog "Unable to open homerrc" or something like that.

I'm *supposed* to be putting together my girlfriends Valentines day present, when I'm done I'll delve into the source and let you know if I can figure anything else. I'll also hunt down your email address so I don't have to post to/. more than I have to.:)

Sorry guys, I was playing around with my Apache config -- believe it or not, the site going down for a few minutes had nothing to do with slashdot (actually, I didn't know it was posted there until a few minutes ago).

This Ant guy has been running around the web posting amorMD2 to every software index site around. Thanks, I think;)

These characters could be integrated into a fully 3-d environment, and used as monsters in a game. The player would navigate this environment from a "first-person" perspective, and try to shoot the monsters. Who's with me on this?

Can someone indeed port this to Windows? Stuck with win98se for my gaming, and although I never see clippy (never use office), would be great to have another timewaster on the screen while I'm playing Diablo2 or mudding:).